Dyckia Brazil

Dyckias...These creatures of the Light are mostly Brazilian. Many of them are still to be seen by the very first time. Come on in. Let us see some. This Blog was created to show you the plants in my garden and also help you to keep happier Dyckias. This is the beginning of the book:THE ALLURING DYCKIAS. I may share some seeds with you. This way we help Dyckias to be known, understood and cherished. Email me at: constantinog@terra.com.br Constantino Gastaldi -Brazil ... 55-47-3425-8085

Aug 29, 2010

Dyckia fosteriana fosteriana

The German Bromeliad Society is about meeting in September

One of the most prestigiuous Bromeliad Societies the German one is

celebrating 40 years and inviting you to their meeting

from September 3rd to 5th.

They have a full program of lectures for their

Jahreshauptversammlung ( annual meeting)

Obs: I you manage to read all this word without fainting from absolute lack of fresh air that you will get a special reward

To all participants I wish the best of the times in ther. I wish you all meet in Witzenhausen.

Find friends, make friends. find information and breathtaking plants.

I wished I could be there.

May God bless you all.

Prosit!

Aug 28, 2010

Dyckia fosteriana fosteriana

Dyckia velascana variagated

The rare and stunning beautiful Dyckia pectinata

Dyckia pectinata

The comb like Dyckia.

We haven´t any sprout or hear of one.

This plant just splits its head or produce seeds.

Just to open any mouth in sheer admiration.

Dyckia fosteriana fosteriana rubra

Dyckia Species from Paraná, East.

Black, beautiful and magic....

...bears stunning yellow flowers.

Aug 27, 2010

Dyckia species from Lagoão-RS

This for sure would be a color extravagance on any plant let aside a Dyckia.

Aug 26, 2010

Dyckia fosteriana fosteriana

Dyckia species from Chapada Diamantina

Aug 25, 2010

Dyckia sp from Lagoão- Rio Grande do Sul

..an endless flow of new possibilities, new colors...new alluring.

Dyckya species -Lagoão-RS

Aug 24, 2010

Dyckia company: Hechtia glomerata

One of the most beautiful Hechtias:

Hechtia glomerata

Aug 23, 2010

Dyckia splendens
Native to Santa Catarina

Two breathtaking Southern Dyckia Species

Dyckia sp Lagoão-RS and Dyckia sp hebdingii affinis.

Dyckia Brittle Star in its golden companyWhe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W03-QxxNaNE&feature=related
Here Ella in a magic moment..to fit the picture...

The darkness of the night and the golden brightness of the day

Black is beautiful...

Dyckia species from East in Paraná.

Aug 22, 2010

Dyckia excelsa

Make your mind up..Silver or gold?

One of the most beautiful Dyckias picture I made myself.

..and I just love it.

These two species are neighbors in nature apart less than 50 kilometers from one another.

From Uruguay and native to Uruguay

Uruguay is a land with no mountain even so look at thi marvel.

These pictures were kindly sent by Señor Marcelo Garcia de Montevideo.

This most wonderful plant comes from a town named Santa Clara de Olimar in Uruguay.

Gracias y Viva a Uruguay! Una tierra de muchas Dyckias!

Golden! This is the golden Dyckia Sp Lagoão.

Have you ever seen such a golden Dyckia?

Aug 21, 2010

Dyckia species from Southern Amazon

This is one of the most colorful Dyckias of all.

Native to the Southernmost reach of the Legal Amazon in Mato Grosso.

Dychia choristaminea from Its Northernmost range

Dyckia choristaminea

The coin is an one Euro Cent.

Dyckia sp from Paraguay

Aug 20, 2010

Dyckia fosteriana rubra

Dyckia fosteriana nivosa

When the rain is kept at bay the nivosa gets all over white.

Dyckia sp, what does this mean? ...and what else?

Dyckia sp is the very same as Dyckia species, in fact short for Dyckia species. It refers to an unnamed Dyckia species.

A Dyckia sp can not be a hybrid Dyckia and never a Dyckia you do not know the name but a nameless Dyckia species. The fact that you do not know the plant it does not mean a nameless one.

A new Dyckia species must be published in order to have its name valid. This obligation doesn´t counted on Iternet publications as The World Wide Web didn´t exist and publication meant : journals, books, magazine, scientific report magazines.

Nowadays nothing is better published than in the WWW.
Publishing means getting public and there is nothing equal nor close to the WWW.

Public means everybody not just a bunch of selected guys.
These are mates, collegues, fellows not public. Here people publish new Plant species on very restricted magazine or very specialized magazines and assume as published. Publishing means everybody who is willing to know of it. Also the world doesn´speaks Portuguese, nor spanish and less than this doesn´t understand old Latim ( Not even those who publishes a new species. They rely on claves and many mistakes are made.) Today publishing means WWW!!! Today it means English!! If a new species is published here in Brazil it must be in Latim as in any other place on the Earth, Portuguese and for God´s sake also in English and entirely not a sinopsis only. Publications with a very restrictec and exclusive public is out of question. Publications with on purposal omitted data is also out of question and not valid. A bunch of readers is not public. A group of readers are collegues never public!!!Public is WWW and your reader may be in Reykjavick or Auckland, Rio or Tokyo and everywhere in between. Portuguese is a lovely sounding language. It makes feel home...but who is going to undertand me in ...in...everywhere else besides people which countries speak Camões´ language? English, English for Gods´sake.
Also there is no sense publising without precise data.
Preservation means showing, educating not hidding an less yet iluding.
What Light is for if it doesn´t Brighten up high above everything? Light is to iluminate or it is not Light and if it isn´t Light it isn´t Science!

Species and Hybrids understand their names

Understand Latim names. Latim names identify species. Usually they have two words. The first one begins with a Capital letter and the second doesn´t. The second identifies the species and the first tell the genus it belongs to.
e.g. Dyckia brevifolia
Dyckia is the genus and brevifolia the species (brevi = short folia = leaf)

e. g. Dyckia MammaMia
Hybrid plant , the second name also begins with a capital letter.

Do you want to know lots about this?
Are you willing to know what is in a Botanical name?
Hit:
http://www.plantapalm.com/wianame,htm